The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-10-22
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"A new school slae factory al Stating
ton has been put In operation.
The new stocking factory At Emau,
Lehigh county. has started operations.
--Theemployees Of the Hersh Steat Heat
ing Company, at this place, are working
day and night to fll orders.
For the week ending ON the 18th inst.
there were 81 ,220 tons Of coal shipped over
the l.. a s. R.R.,a total TO date Of 1880, 300
tons, showing an increase as compared with
same date last year OF 143, ,745 tons.
--For the week ending Oct 18th, there
were 1925 tons Of coal shipped over the
Lehlgh Valley railroad, making total to
date Of 0,079, 292 tons, and showing an in
crease of 47S,Ss5 tons comparedwith same
date last year.
The Welmar Machine Works Of Leba-
non, will build blowing engine for the
Warwick Iron Company, Of Pottstown.
The engine will be 7-foot stroke, 54.lnch
steam cylinder. 1Os-lnch blowing cylinder,
and will blow $4,000 cubic feet Of air per
day.
The passenger locomotive "David
Thomas" and the old freight engine "Chip.
peWa" have been consigned to the SCRAP
heap at the Lehigh Valley Shops, Both
will be rebuilt The "Chippewa's" boiler
has been In service about seventeen
years.
II is a settled fact, says Tsmaqua cor.
respondent, that Tsrnsqua is to have a
silk mill. Enough money has already been
raised TO build a mill, and apArty will come
here and put in the machinery and give us
as security ten-year mortgage bearing fye
per cent
The Baldwin Locomotive works report
that the business of that establishment wa,
meyer greater than now and that they ex.
pect to exceed the last years capacity in
1887 by 100 locomotives, which will bs
at the rate of is week. They are en-
ploying 2,7OO hands.
Now that coal has been advanced
provisions are dear and rent so high thai
the houses are paid for in few years
would il not be in accordance with tht
principles Of Justice TO advance wagesP 4
certainly would be agreeable to the employ
ed, II not to the employer.
The first story Of the Ashland under
garment factory is completed, and work OF
the building Is being pushed ahead rapidly
so as to get It under the roof before winter
The Board of Trade is advertising for two
hundred girls TO work in IL, and many ap
plications have already been received.
| There is an immense-demand for hare
coal throughout the Eastern States, ant
coal shippers at Philadelphia hold larg'
Numbers of orders which they are unabl,
to Ill owing to to the scarity Of coal occa
stoned by the strike in the Lehigh regions
The Schuylkill regions are unable to fur
nish enough coal to meet the demands.
The Thomas Iron Company, of Hoken
dauqua, is an immense corporation. IT.
Works comprise twelve furnaces, six a
Hokendauqua, two at Lock Ridge, two a
Hellertown, one at Chain Dam, and th
Lucy Furnace. II operates besides man!
ore mines, and the Ironton and Mt. Hop
railroads, and owns large interest in tn
Catasauqua and Fogelsville railroad.
The Union Coal Company have issue'
orders to their mine foremen to remove al
persons working in their mines who ar
unable TO speak and understand the Eng
lish language. Through the inability o
men to understand English, orders an
frequently misunderstood, causing seriou
accidents and endsngering the lives Of all
Hungarians and Polander will suffe
most.
Since the refusal of the t.ehigh Goa
and Navigation Company TO grant the ad
vance asked for by committee Of its owl
employees the aspect Of the strike has as
sumed more serions shape. The miner
say they will never give and the cor; pan
wOn't"-Exchange. The former have N
right TO give in, their ciaimes are based Oh
one little word-justice, and to give il
means tyranny and oppression.
-Workingmen will find that the pur
poses Of Knishthood will find consumma
tion better and sooner by a careful regar
of g. NJ. W. Powderly's views and expires
sions than by the careless and foolish view
expressed by many travelling labor agitators
The Minneapolis convention has indorse,
Mr.. PowderlY by not accepting his resigna
tion and it is now in order for every Knigh
to look to the master-workman as leade
and guide.
The address OF Chief Arthur. of th
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, a
Chicago, was not at all complimentary b
the windy labor orators who work onl
with their mouths and whose chief industr
Is that Of inducing others not TO work.
is not at all surprising that Chief Arthur
unpopular with professional labor agitator
He fays them alive occasionally, and the
would not be human If they did not resen
his scathing denunciations. But what Level
headed workingman who compares the con
dltion Of the men he represents with tina
Of those who are kept on strike half time b
demagoGic leaders can fail to see that th
methods of Chief Arthur are the best9 Tn
policy Of avoiding strikes and settling a
disputes in sensible, manly fashion by res
sonable conferences with their employer
has made the Brotherhood Of Locomotiv
Engineers the most prosperous and most re
spectacle body of workingmen in the coun
try. The same policy would, in all probs